Royal Martyr Crown Prince Alexis (middle) with the Royal Martyr Family.

A Miracle Through The Prayers Of Tsar Nicholas II & Tsarevich Alexis

Compiled by
Father Nektarios Serfes
23 May 1999
Boise, Idaho U.S.A.

Introduction by Father Nektarios Serfes:

The following is a miracle that happen on behalf
of the God-loving prayers of the Passion-bearers Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarevich
Alexis (also spelled Alexei). This particular miracle happened in 1947,
and at the time it seems the priest Father Elias must had been the spiritual
Father of the Cossack regiment of Ataman, and he is encouraging faith and
prayers on behalf of the Tsar Martyr Nicholas II and Child-Martyr Tsarevich
Alexis.

It's certainly pleasing to the soul that both the
Tsar and Tsarevich of Russia was still guarding their soldiers whom where
most faithful to them and to our Lord God. Now the Royal Martyrs
Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarevich Alexis are truly Soldiers of Christ our
Lord.

I would now like to humbly present to you how the Cossach Regiment of Ataman in 1947 where rescued through the prayers of Emperor Tsar Nicholas II and the Grand Duke Tsarevich Alexis from the Red Army:

"Rescue From The Red Army"

In the Russian emigre' press there was a report (in 1947) on how the Royal Family was called upon with boldness in prayer in a dangerous situation, when a Cossack regiment, having lost communication with their convoy and with the army, was surrounded by the Reds in the
middle of a swamp. The priest, Fr. Elias, called all to prayer, saying,
"Today is the memory-day of our Tsar-Martyr. His son, the young Tsarevich
Alexei, was a soldier of the Cossack Ataman honor-guard. Let us beg
them to intercede before the Lord for the salvation of the Christ-loving
soliders."

Fr. Elias served a moleben to "the Tsar-Martyr, Sovereign
of Russia." The refrain of the moleben was, "Holy Martyrs of the Royal
House, pray to God for us!"

The whole regiment sang. At the end of the moleben Fr. Elias read the dismissal: "Through the prayers of the holy Tsar-Martyr Nicholas, Sovereign of Russia; his Heir, the youth Alexei the Tsarevich, the Christ-loving of the Cossack Ataman; the right-believing Tsaritsa-Martyr Alexandra and her children the Princess-martyrs; have mercy upon us and save us, for Thou are good and lovest mankind."

To the objection that these holy Martyrs had not yet been glorified and that there had been no manifestations of miracles
from them (Editors notes: the miracles that did happen on behalf of the
Royal Martyrs of Russia where hidden from the people of Russia) Fr. Elias
replied, "You'll see how we'll get out by their prayers... You'll
see how they're glorified. You yourselves head how the people glorified
them - the people of God... And let the holy youth Tsarevich Alexis
show you. Don't you see the miracle of God's anger at Russia for
their innocent blood?... You'll see a manifestation through the saving
of those who honor their holy memory. I direct you to read in the
Lives of the Saints where Christians, without any kind of glorification,
built churches over the bodies of the holy Martyrs, lit lampadas, and prayed
to them as to intercessors and protectors."

The regiment set out with the wonderful revelation
of Fr. Elias.

They walked through the water up to their knees,
up to their waists; they fell in up to their necks... They grabbed hold
of the horses, pulled them out, and began walking again. And they
got out... Forty-three women, fourteen children, seven wounded, even
elderly people and invalids, one priest and twenty-two Cossacks - in all,
ninety-eight people the thirty-one horses. They went straight out
to the side of the swamp, a corner of which was occupied by Cossacks who
where holding back the encircling movement of the Reds - straight into
the midst of their own people. Among the local residents no one wanted
to believe that they got out by that route. And the enemy did not
hear the noise of their passing. In the morning the Red partisans
were unable to locate the tracks of those whad been cut off, to see where
they led. There had been people there, and now they were none!